Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

& so it goes...........
1 posted on 07/09/2013 6:43:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-22 next last
To: Red Badger

Gee, if only we had ideographs for all our other words ... we’d be writing Chinese!


2 posted on 07/09/2013 6:45:31 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

Guess so, if they could spell ampersand correctly


3 posted on 07/09/2013 6:45:55 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

the

Whew, I’m so exhausted...

Really? Why not just have “DUMB ASS” tattooed on your forehead.


4 posted on 07/09/2013 6:47:16 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Breaking News: Hillary not running in 2016. Brain tumor found during recent colonoscopy...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger
Two different spellings of "ampersand" in Ћ article.

What Ћ heck?

7 posted on 07/09/2013 6:50:41 AM PDT by AZ .44 MAG (Repeal Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

“Mathis has invested $38,000 into developing the symbol”

Wha?. Are you kidding me? 38K? wow.


8 posted on 07/09/2013 6:51:46 AM PDT by V_TWIN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

We need to save time by condensing a three letter word to one, but then we have to add “per se” in front of it. Got it.


12 posted on 07/09/2013 6:52:49 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger
Time to dust off the Decabet
13 posted on 07/09/2013 6:55:21 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger
He didn't actually invent this concept, he's just resurrecting it from Middle English.
14 posted on 07/09/2013 6:56:05 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger
He reminds me of Conrad Cornelius O'Donald O'Dell, in Dr. Seuss's On Beyond Zebra, who said, "most people stop with the "Z," but not me.
16 posted on 07/09/2013 6:58:39 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

Just bring back the thorn (TH combination) that we lost when English printers bought European presses missing the symbol. You know the signs that say “Ye olde whatever?” The “Ye” was actually “[Thorn]e”, the Y was the closest symbol to what thorn looked like.


17 posted on 07/09/2013 7:00:34 AM PDT by JenB
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

If word too hard, leave out.


20 posted on 07/09/2013 7:02:19 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

Too late. Within a couple of decades texting will reduce the English language to about ten symbols.


23 posted on 07/09/2013 7:06:52 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

The * symbol needs to represent the word a-hole, but I’m not spending $38K to make it happen.


27 posted on 07/09/2013 7:10:45 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

I invented the question mark.


28 posted on 07/09/2013 7:13:34 AM PDT by SIDENET
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

But then how will we spell ‘teh’?


29 posted on 07/09/2013 7:13:42 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

"It's a Ћ"

30 posted on 07/09/2013 7:16:35 AM PDT by Slyfox (Without the Right to Life, all other rights are meaningless.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger
█████████
38 posted on 07/09/2013 7:25:42 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

How ironic, given how badly the Aussies mangle the beauty of the English language.


40 posted on 07/09/2013 7:36:09 AM PDT by the scotsman (i)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger
Dr. Seuss did a book about the letters after Z in the alphabet, decades ago.

The Emperor Claudius invented three new letters of the alphabet. The Romans used them until Claudius died.

50 posted on 07/09/2013 8:46:10 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

Geez. Isn’t 47 letters in the alphabet enough?


52 posted on 07/09/2013 10:41:16 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-22 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson